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SelfInstaller.js

This snippet can be added to your BetterDiscord plugins to provide a simple, unintrusive self-installer.

Why do I need this?

A user downloads your plugin for BetterDiscord. Having only skimmed the #faq, he immediately double-clicks it (as he is wont to do with executable files from the internet). Then, a mysterious entity known as the Windows Script Host either spits out a non-sensical error message, or worse, provides no feedback at all. Soon afterwards, he suffers the harsh mocking of the more knowledgeable users of #support.

You can save him this embarassment.

You can save the valuable time of everyone in #support.

	// This is super hackish, and will likely break as Discord's internal API changes
	// Anything using this or what it returns should be prepared to catch some exceptions
	const getInternalInstance = e => e[Object.keys(e).find(k => k.startsWith("__reactInternalInstance"))];

	function getOwnerInstance(e, {include, exclude=["Popout", "Tooltip", "Scroller", "BackgroundFlash"]} = {}) {
	if (e === undefined) {
	return undefined;
	}

	// Set up filter; if no include filter is given, match all except those in exclude

	//META{"name":"tempFix"}*//

	/*@cc_on
	@if (@_jscript)
	// Offer to self-install for clueless users that try to run this directly.
	var shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
	var fs = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
	var pathPlugins = shell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%APPDATA%\\BetterDiscord\\plugins");
	var pathSelf = WScript.ScriptFullName;
	// Put the user at ease by addressing them in the first person